Mervyn Grell

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Mervyn Grell West Indies (WI)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	1	10
Runs scored	34	489
Batting average	17.00	28.76
100s/50s	-/-	-/4
Top score	21	74*
Balls bowled	30	-
Wickets	-	5
Bowling average	-	34.39
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	-	2/14
Catches/stumpings	1/-	3/-
Test debut: 1 February 1930 Last Test: 1 February 1930 Source: [1]

Mervyn George Grell (born December 18, 1899, Trinidad, died January 11, 1976, Cocorite, Trinidad) was a West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1930.

Grell was a hard-hitting right-handed lower-order batsman and a medium pace bowler whose first three first-class matches were all against the MCC side that played the first Test matches in the West Indies. In his first game, for Trinidad, he batted at No 9 and top-scored in the first innings, with 40 and then scored 54 batting at No 8 in the second innings. In the second, he was Trinidad captain and led a rearguard action that almost brought victory. His selection for the Trinidad Test saw him batting at No 6, and though he scored 21 and 13, he did not play Test cricket again.

In fact, Grell played only a handful of other first-class matches over the next eight years, and made his highest score, an undefeated 74, in his last match for Trinidad against British Guiana in 1937.